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2.2 India's West Coast Basins

There are six basins located off India's west coast.
Geologically, these basins namely (i) Kerala-
Konkan, (ii) Mumbai, (iii) Saurashtra, (iv) Kutch, (v)
Cambay and (vi) Rajasthan belong to west coast
passive continental margin under rift tectonics.
Under the upcoming HRAS 2025, the resource
assessment of conventional plays and shales
will be conducted in these six basins as a part of
Phase II scheduled tasks.
The Mumbai basin tops the list in terms of both
discovered and undiscovered hydrocarbon in-
place. This is closely followed by Cambay and
Rajasthan basins.

Saurashtra and Kutch are two emerging basins
with increased exploration activities.

Source: DGH Internal

Source: DGH Internal Source: DGH Internal

GoI has also engaged NOCs, to coordinate with 2D cubed proprietary tool, whereby a 3D seismic
international experts from consulting agency migration volume is generated from a set of 2D
and IOC to finalize and drill 4 stratigraphic and 3D seismic lines. The study is expected to
wells, one each in four frontier offshore basins, provide a regional framework for planning future
including Saurashtra. 2D/3D seismic survey. The NDR data were used
under NDR data policy on value-added study at
M/s TGS, Perth, Australia started an integrated a cost to company. Previously, TGS conducted
seismic study of India's west coast margin using such study in India's east coast margin.